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Article XII. 



Proceedings of Philosophical Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



The meetings of the Royal Society commenced for the present 

 Session on the 16th of November; when the following business 

 was transacted : 



The President announced that his Majesty had presented to 

 the Society the suite of apartments in Somerset House, lately- 

 occupied by the Commissioners of the Lottery: he also 

 announced the resignation of Mr. Brande, as one of the Secre- 

 taries of the Society. 



Lieut.-Col.D. Denham, Capt. W.H. Smyth, RN. and Nicholas 

 Brown, Esq. were respectively admitted Fellows of the Society. 



The Croonian Lecture, On the Generation of the Common 

 Oyster, and the River Muscle ; by Sir E. Home, Bart. VPRS. 

 was read ; and a })aper was begun, On a Percussion Shell, to 

 be fired from a common Gun ; by Lieut.-Col, Millar : commu- 

 nicated byR. I. Murchison,Esq. JRS. 



Nov. 23. — Charles Bell, Esq. was admitted a Fellow, and 

 MM. Bouvard, Chevreul, and Dulong, were respectively elected 

 Foreign Members of the Society ; and the reading of Col. ^ 

 Millar's paper was concluded. 



LINN^AN SOCIETY. 



The meetings of this Society were resumed on Nov. 7, when 

 the reading of Dr. Hamilton's Commentary on the fourth part of 

 the Hortus Malabaricus was continued. ^ 



ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL. 



Thirteenth Annual Report of the Council. 



In performing this annual duty, the Council have again the 

 pleasure of announcing the continued prosperity of this Institu- 

 tion. Its progress is indeed slow and unattended by any brilliant 

 transactions; but it is silently and unostentatiously advancing ' 

 in the acquisition of a geological knowledge of our county. 

 More considerable and valuable additions to our cabinet of 

 native minerals might, from time to time be made, and much 

 useful information might be obtained by minutely exploring 

 various interesting locahties, but the limited state of the 

 Society's funds opposes an insuperable obstacle to the speedy 

 completion of these important undertakings. If therefore this, 

 unscientific, but real difficulty, be taken into consideration, the 

 wonder will then be, not how little, but how much has been 

 accomplished. 



Another year has again elapsed, but the school of mines is 

 not established : and there appears at present little probability 

 of the then proposed plan being carried into execution. The 

 Council regret its failure, since the hope of the speedy removal 



